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America May Miss Out on the Next Industrial Revolution

By The Aspen Institute

Oxford Dictionary Proves It's Totally With It By Adding 'Squad Goals,' 'Yas' and 'Drunk Text'

By Megan McCluskey

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Adds Throw Shade, Ghost and Truther

By Katy Steinmetz

'Dumpster Fire' Is the American Dialect Society's 2016 Word of the Year

By Katy Steinmetz
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These Are the 12 Most Mispronounced Words of 2016

And how to say them correctly

By Melissa Chan

And Merriam Webster's Word of the Year for 2016 Is...

It's a word English speakers habitually turn to in unbelievable times

By Katy Steinmetz

Swearing Is Scientifically Proven to Help You *%$!ing Deal

The budding science of profanity shows just how potent it may be

By Katy Steinmetz

The Difference Between Racial Bias and White Supremacy

‘The rhetorical brush is being applied much too broadly’

By John McWhorter

Dictionary.com's 2016 Word of the Year Is Xenophobia

This was a year that continually brought us back to fears about the "other," the editors say

By Katy Steinmetz

Oxford's Word of the Year for 2016 Is 'Post-Truth'

It describes a situation in which feelings trump facts

By Katy Steinmetz

The Media Should Stop Reporting on Polls

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

This Is the Radar System That Could Bring Us Flying Cars

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

What the Words Used to Describe Clinton and Trump Supporters Really Mean

An Oxford analysis reveals adjectives closely associated with those groups

By Katy Steinmetz

What It's Like Inside the World's First Emoji Convention 😜

Where debates over the future of language intertwine with poo emoji pillows

By Katy Steinmetz / San Francisco

The Complicated History Behind California's Vote on Bilingual Education

The question of whether immigrants to the U.S. should speak English is an old one

By Lily Rothman

Why 'LGBTQ' Will Replace 'LGBT'

It's here, it's for 'queer,' and media outlets should get used to it

By Katy Steinmetz

How the 2016 Election Has Improved Our Vocabularies

People have been looking up vocabulary words during debates and other campaign events

By Katy Steinmetz

The Biggest Slang Dictionary Ever Just Went Online

It's corking good stuff.

By Katy Steinmetz

Why the U.N. Will Launch a Space Program

1. Why the United Nations will launch a space program.By Daniel Oberhaus in Motherboard2. Speaking multiple dialects — code-switching — might make you smarter.By Michael Erard in Aeon3. Look out middle managers: Excess management is...

By The Aspen Institute

Why Technology Has Not Killed the Period. Period.

A new study finds that the period serves important functions in the very text messages that are supposed to spell its demise

By Katy Steinmetz
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